I fully agree, Bowser.
Marx and Lenin didn't exactly know each other; and Marxism can work in small communities of volunteers.
If a political or economical system works at a certain level and not and not at another, slight changes can take place, to adapt.
For instance, Belgium was a centralized country (like France) that had discovered it had 2 cultures. It has become a federalized country with more and more competences given to the regions and less to the state; it's an ongoing process and it requires lots of discussions so that everybody understands who can do what and at what level.
I remember, when the Berlin wall fell down, all of a sudden we were faced with 100 million other Europeans who were just like us, even in many cases much better as they had very little greedyness. They were happy or sad for the same reasons, girls were as beautiful or even more so that those back here.
And only a few years before, president Reagan called it the "Evil Empire".

Raoul